CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-24428
7.7 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-11-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.7 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.7 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.1 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-367
Description
Acrobat Reader DC versions 2020.012.20048 (and earlier), 2020.001.30005 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30175 (and earlier) for macOS are affected by a time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability that could result in local privilege escalation. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.
Affected configurations
• adobe acrobat (<= 20.001.30005)
• adobe acrobat dc (<= 17.011.30175)
• adobe acrobat dc (<= 20.012.20048)
• adobe acrobat reader (<= 20.001.30005)
• adobe acrobat reader dc (<= 17.011.30175)
• adobe acrobat reader dc (<= 20.012.20048)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition weakness
References
- https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb20-67.html Vendor Advisory
- https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb20-67.html Vendor Advisory